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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Mission Accomplished.
Posted by Jill | 9:32 AM
Well, now we know for certain what over 4000 American kids died for and tens of thousands more gave their body parts and their very sanity for (not that there was ever any doubt in my mind, but too many refused to believe it):

Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.

The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, will lay the foundation for the first commercial work for the major companies in Iraq since the American invasion, and open a new and potentially lucrative country for their operations.

The no-bid contracts are unusual for the industry, and the offers prevailed over others by more than 40 companies, including companies in Russia, China and India. The contracts, which would run for one to two years and are relatively small by industry standards, would nonetheless give the companies an advantage in bidding on future contracts in a country that many experts consider to be the best hope for a large-scale increase in oil production.


And they said "No war for oil!" was just a protest slogan.

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Blogger dguzman said...
Will anyone else notice and connect the dots like you have, anyone like perhaps the MSM?
6/19/08, 11:18 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I hate foregone conclusions, even when they prove that I was right screaming in the night like Cassandra of Troy.
6/19/08, 12:05 PM  
Blogger Queers United said...
4,000 americans and over 1 million iraqi's this war has to end.
6/19/08, 8:19 PM  
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